From: Chris Siebenmann <cks>
To: rc
Subject: Interesting things from the Plan 9 rc manpage
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 05:52:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Oct27.055244est.2771@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
$" is the Plan 9 rc syntax for Byron's $^ string flattening operator.
'if not' is still there.
The Plan 9 rc has a number of interesting options:
-s: Print out exit status after any command where the
status is non-null (false).
-I: Do not run interactively, regardless of whether or
not standard input is attached to a terminal.
-p is listed as a no-op; presumably no one has bothered implementing
it.
There's a 'flag' builtin that lets you test, set, and clear the
status of command-line flags.
The manual page doesn't have a FILES section, so I don't know if the
Plan 9 rc has abandoned the 'source a file on startup' approach (the
copy of Duff's rc I have sources a file, but it's moderately old).
Interestingly, one of the entries in the BUGS section is
It's too slow and too big.
(as well as
There should be a way to match patterns against whole lists
rather than just single strings.
which I think some people here have wanted in the past.)
- cks
next reply other threads:[~1992-10-27 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-10-27 10:52 Chris Siebenmann [this message]
1992-10-27 16:08 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-10-28 1:17 Byron Rakitzis
1992-10-28 1:57 ` noel
1992-10-28 1:59 ` noel
1992-10-28 5:59 ` James Matthew Farrow
1992-10-28 3:14 Paul Haahr
1992-10-28 3:39 ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-28 4:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1992-10-28 4:07 Paul Haahr
1992-10-28 4:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1992-10-28 4:27 ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-28 5:10 Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-28 15:27 Paul Haahr
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